Parental involvement laws and the stigma of teen pregnancy create significant barriers for teenagers seeking abortions. These factors are pushing teens to obtain abortion pills online.
With invalid driver’s licenses and birth certificates, transgender people are at risk for more than just steep fines and imprisonment.
Polls indicate majority support for abortion rights in most states, but laws differ greatly between places that uphold such rights and those that ban the procedure.
A group of Democratic state lawmakers are attempting to enact an abortion shield law in New Hampshire in an effort to protect those seeking reproductive health care in the state from out-of-state restrictions. “We will continue fighting off attacks from those who want to strip away our bodily autonomy,” Sen. Debra Altschiller, a Stratham Democrat […]
Research shows that white men who file discrimination charges experience employer retaliation at similar rates as other racial groups.
Four years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling gave states the power to ban abortion, further restrictions are arriving through legislation and litigation.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed Senate Bill 268 Friday, a bill to allow transgender people to be excluded from restrooms, locker rooms, jails, and other spaces that don’t match their sex at birth. “I vetoed a nearly identical bill to this one last year,” Ayotte, a Republican, said in a statement announcing the veto. “I made […]
LACONIA — The Laconia Pumpkin Festival is looking for a new logo.
New Hampshire state lawmakers passed two bills related to abortion this week: one to ensure that a health care provider who conscientiously objects to abortion can keep their job if they refuse to aid in an abortion, and another that criminalizes driving a minor to an abortion appointment. House Bill 232, which was passed by […]
ASHLAND — Staff of Lakes Region Community Developers are appealing a planning board decision rejecting a proposal to build housing to Superior Court.